Morality/Immorality of Worlds of Business & Politics

I have not invented the two moral and value systems I shall expound. The human race has accomplished that feat during millennia of experience with trading and producing [commerce], on the one hand, and with organizing and managing territories [politics], on the other hand. I have merely . . . analyzed the probable origins and . . . reasons for it, and identified . . . functional and moral quagmires into which organizations . . . sink when they confuse their own . . . moral system with the other (xii).

However, the author by no means aims merely to describe these moral systems objectively. To the contrary, the purpose of her book is to help instill in politics and commerce more moral considerations. She points out the moral dilemmas and ambiguities of public life as opposed to private, and asks, "Does this mean

. . . that we can be 'good' only in our private lives and that moral behavior must bend or break when e participate in the world's work?" And her answer is, "No, that demoralizing notion is nonsense." She says that "clear rules" inform us as to the moral choices we should make when confronted with moral dilemmas in business and politics. Her book is meant to describe those rules and urge us to ma

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at it can accomplish in civilizing or making more moral the thought or decisions of institutions and the individuals who are a part of them. The author is clear and effective in arguing that there are two moral syndromes at work in society and in public life, and both of these syndromes must be respected because to try to pick one at the cost of the other will result in either a society without morals or a society whose institutions collapse under moral idealism. The two are the commercial moral syndrome and the guardian moral syndrome. These syndromes do not exist entirely separate from one another, and in fact are best represented as distinct but cooperative elements of the same individual. For example, It is ordinary for the same individual to do both guardian and commercial work, yet keep the two distinct. Take labor unions. . . . When the union's battling for a contract, maybe out on strike, it has to shift into its guardian mode. . . . But when a contract is signed, those workers have to shift into a commercial mode (207). The guardian mode, then, does not merely or exclusively concern itself with high ideals, but rather seeks moral solutions within the context of the commercial or political world. If every commercial d
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Republic Government, Commerce Politics, public life, politics commerce, York Vintage, guardian commercial, guardian mode, business politics, commercial mode, Systems Survival, commercial world, moral syndrome, moral dilemmas, moral commercial,
Approximate Word count = 1528
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)